Thursday, October 29
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Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action for real estate venture
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#2The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history
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#3Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
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#4Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch
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#5Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
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Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/GitLab-security-incident-CVE-2026-97229.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282544 Points: 139 # Comments: 62
Article URL: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph?t=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282454 Points: 280 # Comments: 253
The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.
Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don't like AI, and it's not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin and Samir podcast to talk about the launch of widescreen and long-form video for Instagram, Mosseri said he thinks there's a trend of "more
Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade.
Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.
A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of more than 41,000 employees, including those in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to TechCrunch and Wired. The data also linked the agencies to s
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.
The MPC Sample Key looks like the MPC Sample just with keys instead of pads. | Image: Akai The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers and custom firmware developers by giving them early access to the device, which will have open-source firm
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.
Article URL: https://formlabs.com/products/form-studio-1-basic-founders-edition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281044 Points: 160 # Comments: 107
For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There's the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to help you remember what you've read. There's Readwise Reader, an app for reading newsletters, PDFs, and web articles you've saved for later. And now there's Readwise Books, a full-fledged platform for buying, reading, and tal
Article URL: https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280974 Points: 187 # Comments: 30
Article URL: https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280722 Points: 102 # Comments: 53
Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process automation tools. Each one is sophisticated, advanced, and quick to respond. But, when set to work, the outcomes and actions that emerge may be wrong, confused, or lacking a…
Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today. "Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries," CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. "In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest it's been in the last five years." Alphabet's conso
Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent. It's a new financial year for Microsoft, so the company is changing up how it reports its finances by splitting its businesses into two segments for the first
With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it's no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the base models that start at $2,899 for the 14-inch, and $3,399 for the 16-inch, with every premium hardware option that Apple offers pushes those prices to an eye-watering $14,249 and $14,549, respectively. Bo
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over Argon, which Google
A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.
A gavel prior to an open commission meeting at the FCC. | Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consumer gadgets that are facing de facto import bans because of the US government’s xenophobic stance — and they might not be the last. Originally, the
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]
Apple launches its new touchscreen MacBook Pro. Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899.
You're swimming in data and AI tools. Is any of it really helping you better understand your customers? The post What data and AI hide about your customers appeared first on MarTech.
Technology and organizational challenges seem to grow with marketing spend, despite more access to tools, according to data from StackAdapt. The post More marketing spend brings more challenges and complexity appeared first on MarTech.
Customers can discover, compare, and buy your products without you knowing. Your marketing organization needs to adapt. The post Your best customer may never visit your website appeared first on MarTech.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup, he didn’t think its data was worth much. But he’s…
Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control.
Algorithm updates and endless manual workflows are draining. On Nov. 4, learn how AI transforms marketing automation into your strongest strategic partner. The post Marketing automation is dead. Long live marketing automation! appeared first on MarTech.
Apple MacBook Pro M6: Apple has launched the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 in India at Rs 2,39,900. Pre-orders begin October 28, with sales starting November 6
Apple has launched a refreshed 24-inch iMac with the M6 chip in India, starting at Rs 1,74,900. Pre-orders starts today and sales begin November 6
One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.
Indian information technology (IT) companies are well-positioned to benefit from the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by enterprises, as rising infrastructure investments and funding requirements increase financial risks for companies building…
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/methodology/intelligence-benchmarking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269651 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
Jio has debuted as India's second-most valuable listed company, behind its parent, Reliance Industries.
Record 64 Research Presentations Highlight Hengrui's Oncology R&D Strength and Growing International Reach SHANGHAI and MADRID, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2026 recently concluded in Madrid. As a lea…
How Fashion Should Think About AI. Navigating the promise and peril of an AI future in the fashion industry.
As winter approaches, making sure your furnace works well is important for homeowners. A good furnace keeps your home warm and saves money on heating bills. Many people may not know you can make simple changes to improve your furnace’s performance without cos…
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268868 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380 Points: 170 # Comments: 83
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more. Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
At a time when the box office is rebounding, and embracing auteur-driven fare (i.e. Christopher Nolan’s near $1.8B grossing The Odyssey) as well as originality (a three-hour documentary about a delusional, scandalous tech titan called You Can See Everything),…
The brain liquidates billions of mutant neurons around the time we’re born.
How personalization and psychedelics are revitalizing psychiatry.
What students think about my teaching doesn’t matter. Am I wrong?.
Back-to-monomer depolymerization of silicones by deoxygenative chlorination.
Tethered to stone: how rock and water availability shaped early desert occupation.
Switchable Chlorine Atom Transfer Radical Reactions.
Lactate takes a shortcut into mitochondria to power the heart.
Accounting of Africa’s water reveals a management gap.
Why did ancient humans avoid this lush paradise.
This Arabian desert was once a lush paradise. Why did ancient humans avoid it?.
Article URL: https://github.com/maharmstone/moxnox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50267569 Points: 49 # Comments: 8